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speedcoder commented on Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?    · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
briandear · 3 years ago
DDG also lost the plot when they started censoring results based on geopolitical opinion.
speedcoder · 3 years ago
Evidence?
speedcoder commented on Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes   blogs.nvidia.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/bcaulfield
speedcoder · 3 years ago
Would this make "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables less moving https://youtu.be/RxPZh4AnWyk ?
speedcoder commented on Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?   getfilteroff.com/blog/lig... · Posted by u/beweinreich
speedcoder · 3 years ago
Don't pigeonhole users to a specific theme based on age. Sure, use age to set an intelligent default theme, and provide a way for individual users to overide that and choose the theme they want.
speedcoder commented on I cannot write software outside of Google anymore   twitter.com/pheinberg/sta... · Posted by u/lladnar
vnchr · 3 years ago
Just because Jim Kramer says so doesn’t mean it’s true.

If they’d have kept referring to Google instead of Alphabet, it could be MAGMA.

I should tell Jim Kramer. Maybe he’ll make that change official.

speedcoder · 3 years ago
Did you mean NAGMA, as in they won't stop nagging you?
speedcoder commented on Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?    · Posted by u/mariedavid
speedcoder · 4 years ago
James Burke's "Connections" series also has books by the same name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_documen... Noteworthy in that they show discovery and invention happen in context.
speedcoder commented on Ask HN: What is the freest rock and roll song of all time?    · Posted by u/speedcoder
speedcoder · 4 years ago
In a pathgorithmically defined tragectory would it be "10 years gone" by Led Zepplin?
speedcoder commented on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?    · Posted by u/feross
speedcoder · 4 years ago
Perhaps Mozilla could partner with DuckDuckGo and PureOS Librem and make a privacy-centric mobile smart phone with: - PureFireDuck OS - PureFireDuck search - PureFireDuck voice & text - PureFireDuck email - PureFireDuck maps - PureFireDuck app store (an app store unfriendly to spyware apps)?
speedcoder commented on Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?    · Posted by u/trendingwaifu
tomerbd · 4 years ago
Which bike did you buy?
speedcoder · 4 years ago
Yes. Get whatever bike fits you. And I love my Tern [1] foldable bicycle. It folds into a bag which I can take anywhere in my car or on the bus or train and bike when I get there.

[1] https://www.ternbicycles.com/us/bikes

speedcoder commented on It could be years until we see a normal housing market   awealthofcommonsense.com/... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
speedcoder · 4 years ago
Hmm. How do RVs fit in all this?

u/speedcoder

KarmaCake day141March 23, 2020View Original